Fatherland League of Norway

The Fatherland League was a conservative political party in Norway that was active from 25 January 1925 to 25 September 1940. The party was founded by young industrialist Joakim Lehmkuhl, explorer and national hero Fridtof Nansen, and Norway's first Prime Minister, Christian Michelsen, and it aimed to unite all right-wing forces against the rise of the revolutionary Marxist labor movement and the Norwegian Labor Party. At its peak in 1930, it was the largest right-wing movement in Norway, with an estimated 100,000 members. The movement declined through the 1930s, and the Fatherland League was banned and dissolved after the German occupation of Norway in 1940 during World War II.